Covid: 40,580 new cases and 98 victims. Positive rate of 18.7%

There are

registered in the last 24 hours (yesterday they were 45,705), according to data from the Ministry of Health.

(66 were notified yesterday).

(yesterday it was 19.18%).

The molecular and antigenic swabs carried out were 216,511 compared to 238,253 the previous day. 

The number of hospitalizations increased (+182)

, for a total of 6,540 patients, and

, with 244 hospitalized. 

The region with the highest number of cases today is still

with 7,991 infections, followed by Veneto (+5,415), Piedmont (+4,240), Emilia Romagna (+3,719) and Lazio (+3,233). 

The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic rises to 22,990,201.

The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are 36,735 (yesterday 40,067) for a total that rises to 22,310,128.

The currently positive ones are 3,743 more (yesterday +5,572) and rise to 542,766, of which 535,982 in home isolation.

"Also this week the number of Covid cases in our country continues to grow and the incidence reaches 504 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. The RT also shows an increasing trend: we are now at 1.30 therefore above the threshold. epidemic ".

So

Director General of Health Prevention at the Ministry of Health.

"As far as the occupancy rate of the posts in the medical and intensive care areas is concerned, we are respectively

, so we still record an upward trend even if we are

of congestion in health facilities ", he continues." Given the increase in the speed of viral circulation, it is advisable to maintain behaviors that are inspired by prudence and to carry out booster doses of vaccines, especially with regard to people at greater risk, therefore the elderly and fragile, in order to protect themselves from the most serious consequences of the disease ".